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Events · UFC Fight Night: Anderson vs. Blachowicz · Casey Kenney vs Merab Dvalishvili
From the tape · 15 Feb 2020

Casey Kenney vs Merab Dvalishvili

UFC Fight Night: Anderson vs. Blachowicz · Rio Rancho, New Mexico, USA
Result

Merab Dvalishvili beat Casey Kenney

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
BantamweightMain cardReferee · Joe Coca

We published no prediction for this bout. Everything on this page is the official record and the tape it was fought on — the result, the round-by-round counts, the judges’ cards where they exist and the sportsbook line where one was published. Our graded calls start in 2026 and live on the public record.

CK
Red corner CaseyKenneyRise Combat Sports · Tuscon, Arizona
VSOn the tape
Blue corner MerabDvalishvili“The Machine”Serra-Longo Fight Team · Tbilisi
Bantamweight3 rounds15 Feb 2020
The story going in
  • Comes in on a 2-fight win streak.
  • Comes in on a 2-fight win streak.
  • Averages 4.9 more takedowns per 15 minutes than Kenney.
16-4-1
Record
21-5
−1 yr28
Age
29
+1″5' 7"
Height
5' 6"
68″
Reach
68″
Southpaw
Stance
Orthodox
2
UFC bouts
+24
0/20% of wins
Finishes
0/20% of wins
Rise Combat Sports
Gym
Serra-Longo Fight Team
Tuscon, Arizona
From
Tbilisi
Vitals, record, nickname and camp come from the public UFC fighter register and are current, not a snapshot of fight night. UFC bouts, finish rate and every storyline line are counted off the official UFC fight record. A tick marks the side holding the raw edge in that row — longer reach, taller, younger, more bouts, a higher finish rate. It is a fact about the tape, not a prediction, and rows with no clean comparison (record, stance, gym, hometown) carry no tick at all. Any row we cannot fill on both sides is left out rather than half-drawn. Streaks, bout counts and finish rates are as they stood going into this fight — this bout and everything after it is excluded from the count.

Round by round

Every round the fight went, shaded by where the significant strikes actually landed — the takedowns, control time and knockdowns beside them, and how the three judges scored that round.

UFCStats · per round

3 rounds of tape

Round 15:00 of action
Casey Kenney22 sig landed
HEAD36%8 of 30BODY23%5 of 12LEGS41%9 of 10
Merab Dvalishvili19 sig landed
HEAD37%7 of 46BODY21%4 of 12LEGS42%8 of 9
22 of 52
Sig.
strikes
19 of 67
0 of 0
Take-
downs
4 of 6
0:02
Control
1:11
Distance 19Clinch 3Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 14Clinch 3Ground 2
Judges · this round · Kenney firstDerek Cleary10–9Sal D'Amato9–10Ester Lopez8–10
Round 25:00 of action
Casey Kenney16 sig landed
HEAD50%8 of 37BODY25%4 of 4LEGS25%4 of 4
Merab Dvalishvili24 sig landed
HEAD38%9 of 48BODY38%9 of 10LEGS25%6 of 7
16 of 45
Sig.
strikes
24 of 65
0 of 0
Take-
downs
4 of 11
0:00
Control
1:57
Distance 16Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 17Clinch 3Ground 4
Judges · this round · Kenney firstDerek Cleary9–10Sal D'Amato9–10Ester Lopez9–10
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Casey Kenney7 sig landed
HEAD86%6 of 20BODY14%1 of 1LEGS0%0 landed
Merab Dvalishvili20 sig landed
HEAD70%14 of 43BODY5%1 of 1LEGS25%5 of 5
7 of 21
Sig.
strikes
20 of 49
0 of 0
Take-
downs
4 of 7
0:03
Control
2:34
Distance 7Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 12Clinch 1Ground 7
Judges · this round · Kenney firstDerek Cleary9–10Sal D'Amato9–10Ester Lopez8–10

Significant strikes, takedowns, control time, knockdowns and submission attempts exactly as UFCStats recorded them for this bout, round by round. Zone percentages are that round’s landed head, body and leg counts over their own total — raw arithmetic, nothing modelled or smoothed. A round in which a fighter landed nothing shades empty and reads zero; it is never filled in from the round before.

The cards, totalled

The judges’ final totals, the media’s cards beside them, and how these judges usually score. Their round-by-round 10–9s are with the rounds above.

Official card

Unanimous Decision

Referee · Joe Coca
Casey KenneyMerab Dvalishvili
Official totals — Casey Kenney first
JudgeTotal
Derek Cleary2.0 avg spread · 42% wide28–29
Sal D'Amato2.1 avg spread · 46% wide27–30
Ester Lopez25–30

Each judge’s round-by-round scores sit with the round they belong to, in the round-by-round section above — switch a round there and the three cards for it change with the stats.

Media cards — 11 scored, Casey Kenney first · unofficial

Dayne Fox BloodyElbow.com26–30
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com26–30
Mike Sloan Sherdog.com26–30
Tim Burke BloodyElbow.com27–30
Matthew Wells FanSided.com27–30
Paul Fontaine WrestlingObserver.com27–30
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com27–30
Drake Riggs TheBodyLockMMA.com27–30
MM AMania.com27–30
Tyler Treese Sherdog.com27–30
MM AJunkie.com27–30

Fan vote · unofficial

30-27 Dvalishvili · 46%30-26 Dvalishvili · 25%30-25 Dvalishvili · 7%29-27 Dvalishvili · 7%29-26 Dvalishvili · 4%

28 fan cards submitted to MMA Decisions.

Official cards come from the UFCStats fight record and MMA Decisions. Media cards and the fan vote are MMA Decisions’ own collection and are not official. Judge tendency figures are that judge’s whole recorded history, not this bout — they are context for how a card was scored, never a claim that it was scored wrongly.

Takedowns

Takedowns

The level change — head to head

Career UFC takedown rates. Red corner left, blue corner right.

Casey Kenney

1.09takedowns / 15 min
1.09 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
5.97 / 15m
3.11 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
17.06 / 15m
35%
ACCURACY
35%
0.40 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.30 / 15m

Merab Dvalishvili

5.97takedowns / 15 min

Career UFC takedown rates exactly as UFCStats publishes them: takedowns landed per 15 minutes, completion rate, submission attempts per 15 minutes, and the share of takedowns tried on them that they stuffed. Attempts per 15 is the one derived figure — landed ÷ completion rate — and it is omitted wherever either input is missing. UFCStats writes 0% where no attempt was recorded at all, so a percentage of exactly zero reads “n/a” here rather than as a measured rate. “Field” is the average fighter in that weight class, or across every division where a class is too small to average. Rate bars run to the population’s 95th percentile (5.45 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Bantamweight

The market story

Where the price started and where it finished — the sportsbook consensus, with the vig removed. We captured no price series for this bout, so there is no chart to draw.

Casey Kenney↓ −14.9pp
open 52.0%close 37.1%
Merab Dvalishvili↑ +14.9pp
open 48.0%close 62.9%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Casey Kenney opened at 52.0% and closed at 37.1% (−14.9pp), with Merab Dvalishvili moving the other way by the same amount — the two are one de-vigged pair, so they always sum to 100%. There is no line between those two points because nobody recorded one: we hold the open and the close for this bout, not the days in between.

Show the numbers
CornerOpen (US)Close (US)Open %Close %Move
Casey Kenney-12516052.0%37.1%−14.9pp
Merab Dvalishvili-105-18748.0%62.9%+14.9pp
Opening and closing moneylines from BestFightOdds (data/refs/bfo_fighter_moneylines.csv), one row per fighter per bout, de-vigged pairwise so the two corners sum to 100% · scraped 2026-06-10. No price series was captured for this bout, so no line is drawn between the two points.
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